PMs in AI NYC: Three Tools That Are Changing How PMs Communicate Ideas
Date: February 20, 2026 • Author: Second Axis • Category: Event Recap
We brought PMs in AI to New York for an evening of quick-fire demos — three product managers, fifteen minutes each, showing how they're actually using AI tools in their day-to-day work. No slides about the future of AI. Just real workflows, real tools, and real results.
The theme that emerged across all three demos was surprisingly consistent: the hardest part of product management isn't having good ideas — it's getting other people to see what you see. Each presenter showed a different way AI is closing that gap.
Nikita Kabra (Senior Product Manager, Walmart) — Prototyping with Replit
Nikita walked us through how she uses Replit to go from idea to interactive prototype in a fraction of the time it used to take. The key insight from her demo wasn't really about code generation — it was about what happens in the room when you show a stakeholder something they can click through versus handing them a PRD.
Her point was simple: the bottleneck has never been writing requirements. It's been getting people to actually understand and buy into what you're proposing. When you can spin up a working prototype and put it in front of someone, the conversation shifts from "I'm not sure I follow" to "Oh — what if we also did this?" That shift from abstract to concrete is where alignment happens, and tools like Replit are making it dramatically more accessible to non-engineers.
Hashim Syed (AI GTM Lead, Google) — Gemini Enterprise as a PM Command Center
Hashim demoed Google's Gemini Enterprise account and made a case for consolidating PM workflows into a single AI-powered environment. He showed how he uses it to build presentations, pull in context from various sources, and keep everything a PM needs — research, decks, strategy docs — in one place.
The appeal here is reducing the tool sprawl that most PMs deal with daily. Instead of bouncing between a doc tool, a slide tool, a research tool, and a data tool, Hashim showed how Gemini Enterprise can serve as a central hub where that context lives together. For PMs who spend half their time just assembling information from different places before they can even start synthesizing it, that's a meaningful workflow improvement.
Aakash Bhatnagar (Co-founder, Second Axis) — Second Axis for Data-Driven Stakeholder Decks
Aakash demoed Second Axis, which tackles a problem every PM knows well: you have user call recordings, telemetry data, and product metrics scattered across systems, and you need to turn all of that into a clear narrative for leadership. Second Axis lets you query across your user research and usage data, then quickly assemble that into presentation-ready material.
The demo showed how you can go from raw data to a stakeholder-ready deck without spending hours manually pulling quotes from call transcripts or screenshotting dashboards. It's built specifically for the PM use case of needing to tell a compelling, evidence-backed story under time pressure.
The Throughline
All three demos pointed to the same fundamental shift: AI tools are compressing the distance between a PM's insight and other people's understanding of it. Whether it's a clickable prototype, a unified workspace, or a data-driven deck, the common thread is that PMs can now spend less time packaging their thinking and more time on the thinking itself.
That's what makes this moment interesting. The tools aren't replacing product judgment — they're removing the friction that used to sit between having a good idea and getting an organization to act on it.
PMs in AI is a community for product managers working at the intersection of PM and AI. We host regular events featuring real workflows and tools from practitioners in the field.